Square Enix is suing a group of 15 "Italian nationals" for leaking a preview build of Deus Ex: Human Revolution to torrent sites a couple of months ago, reports Kotaku. Word is: "As part of court filings issued last month in Washington, Square Enix accuse the fifteen of logging into the servers where the demo was hosted using the access information of an Italian games magazine (GMC), where they found the preview build of the game, copied it and uploaded it onto the internet."

There is a serious error being made by those posters who are arguing that since the leaked "demo" generated strong positive buzz about the game the offenders who leaked the game to the Internet should be pardoned of their crime. The fact still remains that they committed a crime. They knowingly and intentionally accessed a private server using the credentials of a member of the press and proceeded to upload files to the Internet not intended for either their or our consumption. Whether this act increased preorders or not does not mitigate the fact that what they did is criminal and liable for prosecution.